Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine — Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn't disclose the size of their index, although they claim …

Cuil Launches Biggest Search Engine on the Web — Technology Company Offers New Look at Search — Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy.

Steve Jobs Walks Into the Trap — What was Steve thinking? I don't pretend to understand the pressures he's under, both physically and professionally, but calling New York Times columnist Joe Nocera with an “off the record” health update was a big mistake, completely unnecessary, and serves only to fan the flames.

‘CAPITAL’ UNREST CASTS GLOOM OVER YAHOO! — Yahoo! may have made peace with activist investor Carl Icahn, but its second-largest shareholder is still furious with Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang and is considering withholding votes for them, sources told The Post.

Verizon counts on wireless for profits — Verizon Communications' wireless business continues to boost the company's profits as its landline business sputters, according to second-quarter earnings reports. — On Monday, Verizon reported a 12 percent increase in second quarter net income.

IBM to buy Ilog for $340 million — IBM has agreed to buy French software company Ilog for around €215 million ($340 million). IBM plans to combine Ilog's business rules management systems with its own business process management and business optimization tools, it said Monday.

Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who's Doing It? — If there's a hot new social media trend happening, you can bet that companies are trying to find a way to use it too. It happened of course with blogging, it happened with Twitter, and it is now happening with FriendFeed and other lifestreaming apps.

Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? — The Internet was in crisis. Its electronic “pipes” were clogged with new bandwidth-hogging software. Engineers faced a choice: Allow the Net to succumb to fatal gridlock or find a solution. — The year was 1987.

Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity — The US Patent and Trademark Office is a convenient whipping boy for problems with the patent system. The USPTO famously approved the junk patents at the heart of the legal battle between Research in Motion and a patent-trolling firm called NTP.

$80 Billion? Online Display Market Is Being Overhyped — For All the New Media Spin, It's Just an ‘Old’ Media — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The exuberance isn't so rational this time, either. — It's déjà vu all over again as the web giants scurry to build massive internet-ad networks …